Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Space Between the Wars
- 2 Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses
- 3 Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of ‘Autognosis’ in the Interwar Years
- 4 Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War
- 5 Look Back to ‘Gladness’: Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940–5
- 6 Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936–42
- 7 Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject
- Conclusion
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Space Between the Wars
- 2 Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses
- 3 Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of ‘Autognosis’ in the Interwar Years
- 4 Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War
- 5 Look Back to ‘Gladness’: Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940–5
- 6 Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936–42
- 7 Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Modern NostalgiaSiegfried Sassoon Trauma and the Second World War, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2008